Can anyone tell me how easy (or hard) it is to transfer from CMT to RGN please.....silly comments may come first but i am being serious!!
I only ask this because i dont think i can further my career as a CMT.
Thanx all

very easy, pass your nurse selection board which no-one has ever failed, sit through 3 years of tedium and there you go.

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I did

Perhaps they saw through my cunning ruse to escape Minden. As chairman of the 4 AFA escape committee I had to give it a go. I think my total lack of enthusiasm and turning up in uniform meant it was a non starter! Still, got a free flight out of it - went straight on leave after

I have also been the clinical rep on a board and it was amazing just how many people did not know, when questioned, what a nurse did. They didn't know how long the training was or what qualities a nurse should posess. Needless to say, more failed than passed on this board.

Can anyone tell me how easy (or hard) it is to transfer from CMT to RGN please.....silly comments may come first but i am being serious!!
I only ask this because i dont think i can further my career as a CMT.
Thanx all

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book an interview with your troopie, they should book an interview with RCMO - do you have the necessary quals?

two week placement in say MDHU Frimley Park - paperwork to Glasgow, and wait for the next selection board

GO FOR IT, you havent anything to lose! gets you out of Munster for two weeks if nowt else

I guess it was probably the "I'll leave as soon as I can, and go and work for the NHS or the private sector" that caused them not to be enlisted! And not the delaration of wanting to work in elderly care, although I would question the sanity of anyone who admitted in public to wanting to work in that particular field!

It's actually harder for a TFI to transfer into the QA's than it is for a civvy. Speaking to one of the lads from the recruiting bunch, he said it's approx a 2 year waiting list to start the nurse training once all the paperwork is done.

I have also been the clinical rep on a board and it was amazing just how many people did not know, when questioned, what a nurse did. They didn't know how long the training was or what qualities a nurse should posess. Needless to say, more failed than passed on this board.

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For CMT's out there this is probably due to the lack of QA reps or badly trained RCMOs' out at the sharp end to assist them with the process

As a CMT myself I would also have difficulty telling you exactly what a nurse does EVER